Homage to Daniel Shays

“A collection as varied as it is excellent, a temperature reading of a feverish society.” —Saturday Review

“Some of the most courageous, liveliest and wittiest comment on literature, the theatre and social life that has lately been written in America.” —Philip Rahv

“Not only are the individual essays excellent, the whole volume is more than the sum of its parts.” —Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books

“In this era of instant sages and overnight superstars, Vidal the essayist is a national treasure, one of the very few sane voices amidst the babble.” —Sheldon Frank, Chicago Daily News